Ning Ying

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1959-10-23 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Beijing - China

Also Known As 宁瀛, 寧瀛, Ling Ying

Ning Ying

Biography

Born in Beijing in 1959, Ning Ying was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 together with many of the filmmakers of China’s Fifth Generation. She left China for Italy in 1980 and completed her film training at the Rome Film Experimental Academy in 1986. After returning to China in 1987, she worked as Bernardo Bertolucci’s assistant director for The Last Emperor. She made her directorial debut with Someone Loves Just Me, and then directed her “Beijing Trilogy”: For Fun, On the Beat, and I Love Beijing. Together, the films are an analysis of the massive changes that China’s national capital had undergone over the previous decades. Ning started venturing into documentaries with a series of shorts for UNICEF. Her first feature-length documentary Railroad of Hope, which follows the mass migration of cheap labor between Sichuan and Xinjiang, won the Grand Prize at the 2002 Cinema du Réel festival in Paris.

Known For

Director

2015
2013
2012
Kung Fu Man

as Director

2010
The Double Life

as Director

2010
Unwordly

as Director

2005
Perpetual Motion

as Director

2002
Railroad of Hope

as Director

2001
I Love Beijing

as Director

1996
Duling - Turin

as Director

1995
On the Beat

as Director

1993
For Fun

as Director

1990
1988
The Case of the Silver Snake

as Assistant Director

1987
The Last Emperor

as Assistant Director

Writer

2001
I Love Beijing

as Writer

1996
Duling - Turin

as Writer

1995
On the Beat

as Screenplay

1993
For Fun

as Writer

Editor

2001
I Love Beijing

as Editor

1995
On the Beat

as Editor

Producer

2020
Father

as Producer